Minor mineral mining major environmental problem in Kerala, IT Order exposes...
Leaders of both the ruling and the Opposition parties are named as payees taking crores of rupees in the loose sheets seized by the income tax department from Cochin Minerals and Rutile Ltd. The names...
View ArticleFormer Calcutta High Court Chief Justice appointed National Green Tribunal...
Justice Prakash Shrivastava, who retired from the Calcutta High Court in March this year, has been appointed as the chairperson of National Green Tribunal for a period of four years. — FORMER Chief...
View ArticleWhy the Bombay High Court directed a tiger reserve to be set up in Goa
In a historic judgment, the Bombay High Court reprimanded the Goa government for ignoring the recommendations made by the National Tiger Conservation Authority. The court stated, “The tiger is a unique...
View ArticleAoR’s injured hand brings the conversation of human–dog conflict to the CJI’s...
The Chief Justice of India Dr D.Y. Chandrachud agreed to look into the issue of increasing human–dog conflicts to find a solution to curb such incidents. — TODAY, the issue of an alleged increase in...
View ArticleSave macaques from cruel social media trends, urges FIAPO and SMACC joint...
The statement notes that 13 percent of the content features deliberate psychological torture of the macaques, that is, intentionally making them feel fear and distress by scaring, teasing and denying...
View ArticleCotigao–Mhadei tiger reserve: Supreme Court issues notice to Goa Foundation
The Chief Justice of India Dr D.Y. Chandrachud verbally remarked that if the proposal from the state government ought to be the first step then no state government would ever make a recommendation to...
View ArticleG20 declaration ignores critical issues of animal agriculture sector, argue...
Samayu and the coalition of organisations anticipate a prompt response and commitment from the ministry to address these crucial concerns. — SAMAYU, alongside a coalition of 17 organisations, have...
View ArticleCaste is in the very air we breathe
Drawing from the US experience and action, India, too, needs to formulate policies to reduce the outsized exposure to air pollution of historically marginalised communities, writes Kalyani Tembhe. — A...
View ArticleWhy is Delhi’s air much worse than you think
Delhi’s annual tryst with fatal levels of air pollution has begun, and so has the cacophony on how to reduce it. If you are a denizen of the city, your groaning respiratory system and watery eyes must...
View ArticleClimate finance, the North–South divide and India
As one of the Global South’s leading States, India is in a prime position to represent Global South interests in climate governance issues. — THE United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...
View ArticleClimate change combat needs to prefer imaginative over evidence-based legal...
Global institutions have raised alarming concerns regarding the Earth’s rising temperature. In these dire times, legal recourse to combat climate change requires imaginative thinking rather than...
View ArticleIntergenerational equity and its importance in climate change mitigation and...
As two sides of the same coin, intergenerational equity and sustainable development are rooted in the need to balance the short-term needs of today’s generation with the longer-term needs of future...
View ArticleParliamentary committee heeds PETA’s recommendation to make ‘bestiality’ a...
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill, proposed to replace the Indian Penal Code (IPC), does not have a Section equivalent to Section 377 of the IPC. PETA has recommended closing this gap. — PEOPLE for the...
View ArticleFIAPO bemoans lack of species-neutral provisions in BNS Bill on sexual...
The newly introduced Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita, 2023 overlooks the plight of animals and has no clear mechanism for redress of sexual violence against animals, says Federation of Indian Animal Protection...
View ArticleGlobal stocktake at COP 28 ignores food, responsible for 1/3rd global...
More than 100 organisations have expressed dismay over the manner in which agriculture and food systems find almost no mention in the final draft of the global stocktake under the 2015 Paris Convention...
View ArticleLucknow demolition drive: What’s the tearing hurry? HC asks; government goes...
Around 15,000 people have received eviction notices as the Akbarnagar locality in Lucknow has been classified as a riverbed where any construction or encroachment is prohibited. — DESPITE a stay on a...
View ArticleJigarthanda Double X confronts tribal land struggle with a searing question:...
Tamil filmmaker Karthik Subbaraj tells the story of tribals who fought for their land in Tamil Nadu in the 1970s in a Quentin Tarantino style, topping it with a dash of Clint Eastwood’s cowboy swagger....
View ArticleAs Karnataka government gears for tusker capture, who will address the...
A joint statement by two animal rights organisations states that the capture and relocation of wild elephants leads to deaths among them. It calls upon authorities to develop practices to mitigate the...
View ArticleWhy NCRB must document animal abuse data
Violent crimes against animals have an intimate link with violence against humans. The sooner National Crime Records Bureau of India takes cognisance of this face the better it will be for both animals...
View ArticleWhose minerals are they: Union, state or Scheduled Tribes?
Can the binary of state versus Union in the ongoing Mineral Area Development Authority versus Steel Authority of India be suffused with a paradigm shift ensuring a greater say for tribal communities...
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